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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Regional Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (8 November 2023) | Viewed by 2092

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Juan Miguel Kanai

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Department of Geography, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: large-scale spatial processes and socio-economic structures implicated in the worldwide growth of cities; the infrastructurally-mediated expansion of peri-urban areas; urbanization’s global footprint
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Prof. Dr. Olaf Kühne

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Department of Geography, Eberhard Karls University, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Interests: landscape theory; empirical social science landscape research; regional geography; energy system change; integrative urban research; constructivism; neopragmatism; Europe; North America
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Regional development is an important branch of geographical science, which intersects geography, economics, and sociology. It contains multiple aspects of socioeconomics, such as economic growth, resource allocation, industrial structure, social welfare, regional planning, etc. With the increased focus on environmental and social problems, the United Nations has proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The emergency of balancing regional development and sustainability has become an important issue.

To this end, we invite the Section Editorial Board Members to preside over the collection series of Regional Sustainable Development. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Sustainable urban development;
  • Sustainable rural development;
  • Urban planning;
  • Urban governance;
  • Regional development policy;
  • Green economy;
  • Circular economy;
  • Regional industrial transfer;
  • Community management;
  • Social well-being;
  • Ecosystem services.

Dr. Juan Miguel Kanai
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kühne
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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The Contributions of Philosophy and the Social Sciences to Landscape Conflict Research—A Critical Comparison
by Karsten Berr, Petra Lohmann and Olaf Kühne
Sustainability 2023, 15(24), 16802; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416802 - 13 Dec 2023
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In recent years, the study of ‘landscape’ has gained importance in both the public and in the sciences. In philosophy and the social sciences, different traditions for dealing with ‘landscape’ have developed—not least based on a common reference point of Georg Simmel’s “Philosophy [...] Read more.
In recent years, the study of ‘landscape’ has gained importance in both the public and in the sciences. In philosophy and the social sciences, different traditions for dealing with ‘landscape’ have developed—not least based on a common reference point of Georg Simmel’s “Philosophy of Landscape” published in 1913. In this paper, these traditions are examined with regard to their suitability for contributing to the analysis and regulation of landscape conflicts and for providing answers to the landscape-related challenges of the present—both in terms of science and society—exemplified by the challenges of the energy transition. The central points of criticism are, besides an insufficient amount of conceptual work and a ‘forgetting of the individual’ of philosophy and the social sciences, the reduction of the concept of landscape to the concept of nature in philosophical landscape research. Full article
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Exploration of the Adaptive Capacity of Residents of Remote Mountain Villages
by Shu-Hsun Chen and Bor-Wen Tsai
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5917; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075917 - 29 Mar 2023
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It is important to understand how residents in highly vulnerable natural and social environments, e.g., remote mountain villages, adapt to extreme climate shocks. Taking Shenmu Village in Xinyi Township, Nantou County, central Taiwan, as an example, this study examined the adaptive capacity of [...] Read more.
It is important to understand how residents in highly vulnerable natural and social environments, e.g., remote mountain villages, adapt to extreme climate shocks. Taking Shenmu Village in Xinyi Township, Nantou County, central Taiwan, as an example, this study examined the adaptive capacity of residents in this remote and mountainous area from the perspective of social capital and institutions. The empirical data for this study were collected from two sources: the Public Participation Geographic Information System Workshop and in-depth interviews with the residents of Shenmu Village. The results of the study reveal that the residents of Shenmu Village adopted agricultural adaptation strategies by switching crop types and utilizing diversified crop production spaces. Their adaptive capacities are based on mutual assistance and reciprocity, networks, local knowledge, mountain area and land management policies, and improvements in transportation and communication infrastructure in central Taiwan. This study can provide a reference for the sustainable development of remote mountain villages. Full article
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